Films & Events

The Palace is delighted to present a season of films accompanied by introductions, fixed ticket prices of £6/£8 all shows and a season loyalty card available from the cinema (buy tickets for 5 films, get the 6^th and 7^th for free). The season also launches Dementia-Friendly Palace screenings at the Palace including snacks, intros and reminiscence sessions.

As part of our “Nobody’s perfect!” Billy Wilder season, we are very pleased to present six free dementia friendly screenings for people living with dementia and their carers.

In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, Pressure stars Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser as Captain James Stagg and General Dwight D. Eisenhower facing an impossible choice — launch the largest and most dangerous invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: When a trip to Paris transforms Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) into a beautiful and elegant young woman, she soon has workaholic Humphrey Bogart and carefree playboy William Holden competing for her attention in this spry romantic comedy classic.

We're delighted to host Analogue Ensemble, who for 15 years have run a programme of artists’ experimental film and expanded cinema in Thanet, inviting local, national and international artist filmmakers to present their work live and engage in post screening discussion with the audience.

In collaboration with Broadstairs Jazzfest & The Magnet: Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans.



Willem Dafoe is Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer (Edmund Donovan) appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.

The monumental first chapter of Antonin Baudry’s two-part historical epic, Résistance chronicles General Charles de Gaulle’s defiant flight to London to ignite the French Resistance following the collapse of France.

Georgia Oakley's (Blue Jean) irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility is a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.

Three leaders of the French Resistance fight parallel battles during World War Two to liberate a Free France - and the whole of Europe - from Nazi occupation.

Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine alongside a dangerous crew of prisoners, on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom.

The residents of Mossy Bottom Farm are all looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

In one of the most influential films of the silent era presented here with its original pre-recorded orchestral score. A sinister hypnotist travels the carnival circuit leaving a trail of murders in his wake.

The Palace is delighted to welcome back the Folkestone Documentary Festival! Join us for these wonderful two films celebrating living traditions of folk and craft connecting our past, present and future.

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu (The Revenant). The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch (who also has a small acting role in Nadja) to come up with a low-budget horror movie, Michael Almereyda made this thrilling, moody, funny and endlessly inventive reimagining of the Dracula myth.